SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL

Presents
Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II
APRIL 24, 2010 AT 7:00 P.M.

WHAT: Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) present—Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II, Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fleet Room at the Fort Mason Center.

This special event celebrates the large and thriving Vietnamese community in the Bay Area and brings Vietnamese American poets from around the country to read and perform.

Outspoken brings the new voices of international poetry to the center stage, featuring Anh Vu Buchanan , Andrew Lam, Kim-An Lieberman, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Dao Strom and Lan Tran. Emceed by Viet Nguyen.

Immediately following the reading will be a reception held at Book Bay Fort Mason, featuring music, food and more.

Sponsored by: the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), the Center for South East Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Asian American Studies Department and the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University.

EVENT
INFO: Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II
Saturday, April 24, 2010

7:00 p.m. Reading—Fleet Room, Fort Mason Center
9:30 p.m. Reception—Book Bay Fort Mason, Building C Room 165

INFO: For more information, call 415-626-7500 or visit www.friendssfpl.org/?SF_Intl_Poetry_Fest_Vietnamese www.dvanonline.org